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mulva
real talk.........when did san diego and santa barb become the mark of excellence. do you really think going there is going to trump any moderately difficult to get in east coast private college a long standing tradition when going for a job. i don't think so. i would prolly put equal if not less weight in seeing them next to the easy state u shools to get it. such as colorado, indiana, minny and a few others
irvine use to be be harder than ucla late 80's 90's as well. and don't even get me started on the big joke of usc
No. Ivrine was never harder to get into than UCLA. You are completely just making shit up. I applied to UC Irvine and UCLA in 1997, got into both, and chose UC Irvine because they offered me an academic scholarship (this was back in the days when middle class white males could get scholarships, no chance now). I know a ton of people who applied to and went to both schools around that time. I don't know a single person who got into UCLA who was rejected by UC Irvine, but I know a ton of people it went the other way around.
Berkely and UCLA were comparable and people got into and rejected without any rhyme or reason, eg. one person got into UCLA but not Berkeley and another vice versa.
Anyways, it isn't that schools like UCSD and UC Santa Barbara are hard to get into per se standards wise. It is just that A LOT more people apply to these schools than get admitted. So admissions can be very choosy. Because they are state schools they are mandated to take a certain % of California students. Then, when it comes to out of state and international students they pick and choose based on whatever boxes they are trying to check, and that box isn't white or Asian male.
But UC Irvine, UCSD and UC Santa Barbara have always been a tier down from UCLA and Berkeley.
